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[resolved] RSS Feed Down all day? (9 posts)

  1. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I have 4 blogs.... 2 of them have suddenly had an error on the RSS entry feed. The error is:

    XML Parsing Error: syntax error
    Location: http://www.mikelearn.com/?feed=rss2
    Line Number 11, Column 63:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
    --------------------------------------------------------------^
    and
    XML Parsing Error: syntax error
    Location: http://learnguitars.com/?feed=rss2
    Line Number 11, Column 63:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

    I did an automatic upgrade for a couple plug-ins... other than that, I have not made any changes. How can I fix my feed?

    Thanks in advance!!

    -- forgot to add... Version 2.7.1 --

  2. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    If you look at the feed's source, you see a bunch of "not feed" content at the top (below).

    You probably want to disable that plugin and, perhaps, re-download and install it?

    <!--
/***************************************************************
 * Plugin Name: DM Albums
 * Plugin URI: http://www.dutchmonkey.com/wp-plugins/
 * Description: In-Line Version of DM Photo Albums.
 * Author: Frank D. Strack
 * Author Email: frank@dutchmonkey.com
 * Author URI: http://www.dutchmokney.com
 ***************************************************************/
 -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../javascript/browser.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

var g_Browser = new Browser();

window.parent.UpdateProperties(g_Browser.Encode(""))

</script>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0" bottommargin="0">
</body>
</html>

    None of that should be in an RSS feed.

  3. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I disabled the plug in and it did not fix the RSS.

    Excuse my ignorance.. I am somewhat new to the software and this is the first problem I have had.. how do I look at the feed source?

  4. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    To clarify.. I see what you are showing by "view source", but I cannot figure out which file within the system is calling that info.

  5. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    When you see this at the top of a feed:

    <!--
/***************************************************************
 * Plugin Name: DM Albums
 * Plugin URI: http://www.dutchmonkey.com/wp-plugins/
 * Description: In-Line Version of DM Photo Albums.
 * Author: Frank D. Strack
 * Author Email: frank@dutchmonkey.com
 * Author URI: http://www.dutchmokney.com
 ***************************************************************/
 -->

    And then see the same stuff on the top of all non-feed pages as well, it would certainly seem that you have a plugin issue.

    So, our of curiosity, if you disable ALL plugins and change to Default theme, does your feed work?

    If so, while still on Default theme, start enabling plugins and checking the feed. Any results?

  6. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I disabled everything, overwrote the plug in that is causing the issues, and over wrote all the word press files. ... Still the same issue. No change with default theme either.

  7. kmessinger
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    That junk is in your index.php file most likely. No html should be there. If you need to add html, use header.php as it is the file most like index.html.

  8. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    OK.. I have been working on this for a couple hours now. I completely deleted all files associated with the DM-ALbum Plug In... and the rss page worked. I added the plug in back in.. it all quit working.

    I deleted the files again and re-installed the last version (before the upgrade from 2 days ago) and the issue cleared up on ONE of the blogs. LearnGuitars.com works fine now.

    I followed the same procedure for MikeLearn.com, and it did not work. While the http://www.mikelearn.com/?feed=rss2 page looks fine, it does not show up as an RSS feed in the widget at LearnGuitars.com and LearnAirbrush.com.

    I have given up for the evening.

  9. Head Roller
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this today. I thought I would report the outcome.

    I completely removed the DM Albums plug in. I added the files back in one at a time, checking the RSS feed after each addition. I was able to narrow the problem down to the EXIF.php file for the plug in. I removed that file and the plug in still works and so does the RSS.

    I have no idea what the deal is. The conflict did not exist until 2 days ago, but it is now fixed.

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